Need some advice from my fellow Commanders!

MadFable

MadFable
Hello all! I've been puttering around from system to system, dying and decorating stations and space with my glorious remains. It's been an excellent learning experience. I've just recently upgraded to a viper, liking that a lot. So I'm looking to learn the dance of death. But I've been having difficulty (likely my own fault) finding a nice system that suits well for bounty hunting. So I thought I'd I ask my more learned fellow commanders.

So does anyone know of any good bounty hunting spots? I'm looking to fatten my bank account!

Thanks for any info anyone is willing to share! I really appreciate it!

Fly well CMDRS!!!
 

FX2K

FX2K
Nav beacons near the main star you arrive at.
You will need a kill warrant scanner for anarchy based systems ;) since all ships will show clean. Once scanned, check the left contacts panel for the bounty amount
 

Matt

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Also there are pirates floating around in unidentified signal sources.

As stated, scan them with the kill warrant scanner first then look in the left-hand screen to see their bounty. Even if "Clean" in the main scanner they may have bounties elsewhere. DONT attack if you are not in an Anarchy system and they are "Clean" but have a k-bounty otherwise that system will put a bounty on your head and the Elite security forces will come kill you :)
 

eachann

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Matt said:
Also there are pirates floating around in unidentified signal sources.

As stated, scan them with the kill warrant scanner first then look in the left-hand screen to see their bounty. Even if "Clean" in the main scanner they may have bounties elsewhere. DONT attack if you are not in an Anarchy system and they are "Clean" but have a k-bounty otherwise that system will put a bounty on your head and the Elite security forces will come kill you :)
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The USS's have been my bread and butter... especially since I learned the trick that if you are flying with throttle off in supercruise, when the USS's show up they will be close enough to just target them and exit supercruise with no wait. If there is just cargo there or all clean ships just supercruise back out and hit the next one... but often you'll fine 3-4 ships in a USS and usually 1 or 2 of them will be wanted. The other two are often security ships engaging the wanted ships... but you just jump in and take that bounty for yourself. If you combine this with the "kill X pirates" missions it's pretty good money because you get the mission payment plus the bounties. Also even in a non-anarchy system use your KWS on all the wanted ships so that if they have bounties in other systems you get those as well.. Anarchy's are a bit annoying in that you HAVE to KWS everything becasue everybody is clean in an anarchy.
 

EAGLE 5

EAGLE 5
As previously stated Anarchy systems are your best bet, HOWEVER they are not always so. For me seems like the key to excellent bounty hunting is a resource rich system with a lot of planetary rings and asteroids with high or lush reserves. Pirates will come in droves to remove gold, silver, and palladium from the miners in those systems. An extra bonus is if said system has a known crime syndicate or organization. The vast majority of the pirates will be from that faction and that will keep you on the right side of the authorities' guns.
 

Kolato

Kolato
Get to Eranin, it has tons of LP-98 anacondas with 150k bounties at the Nav Beacon!
I've made almost a million the last 2 days.
 

MadFable

MadFable
Thanks for the suggestions all! I'll definitely pick up a warrant scanner asap. I also really like the Nav beacon and asteroid ring suggestions. I ran across one system that had a port close to an extraction site, was really nice! Can't remember where it was though so I never found it again sadly!
 
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